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The manufacture appears to have been carried on for about 

 a year, but in June, 1773, the following appears in the Dxiblin 

 Journal: — *' The Tyrone glass-house to be let from the first of July. 

 Fire clay fit for pot-making, sand and coals are to be had on the 

 spot, which for a year past have been found to answer as well as 

 any in England, and there is no doubt but that as good flint glass 

 can be made as that imported. No person need apply unless one 

 who is determined to carry it on in the best manner. For further 

 particulars apply to Mr. Benjamin Edwards, glass manufacturer, 

 or to Mr. Davis Dukat at the Tyrone Collieries, near Dunganncn.'' 

 It is uncertain whether the manufacture was continued or not, as 

 no other reference to it has as yet been found. It may have been 

 carried on for two or three years, but about 1776 Benjamin 

 Edwards removed to Belfast, where he erected a glasshouse at the 

 east end of the Long Bridge. 



The following appears in the Belfast Nnvs-Leiier for January 

 9th, 1781 : — " Benjamin Edwards, at his flint glass-works in Belfast, 

 has now made and is constantly making all kinds of enamelled, 

 cut and plain wine glasses ; cut and plain decanters with flint 

 stoppers ; crofts ; common dram and punch glasses ; flint and 

 green phials ; flint and green garde-de-vins ; retorts, receivers, and 

 all manner of chemical wares ; cruets ; salts ; goblets, etc. The 

 above mar.ufactory has been completed at a very considerable 

 expense, and is equal to any in England, and there are vast 

 quantities of goods of all sorts now in hands. The proprietor has 

 brought a glass cutter from England, who is constantly employed, 

 and hopes to merit the continuance of the favour of all the friends 

 of Ireland, which he has already received." 



In 1783 Edwards erected an iron foundry adjacent to his 

 glass-house and took as partner a man named Shaw, who retired 

 in 1789. In 1784 Edwards and Shaw state that they are making 

 all kinds of machinery, also engines for grinding materials for 

 glass, and bottle moulds, round, square, or fluted. In 181 1 

 Edwards gave up the foundry, which was then carried on by 

 Chaine and Young. 



In 1787 Edwards states in the Belfast News-Letter that as he 



